Melanin is a natural pigment in your body that protects you from UV damage from the sun. People with darker skin tend to have more melanin and are therefore at a lower risk of sun damage. The only way ...

A laboratory method that mimics how melanin is made in the skin yields pigments in a wide range of brilliant colours. Just one pigment — melanin — serves as the basis for the diversity of hair, skin ...

Premature greying is an issue that has been pricking the peace of lakhs of youths all over the world. Our lifestyle, stress, ...

A new discovery about the structure of melanin has brought scientists one step closer to developing a new, potentially ultra-protective sunscreen derived from a biological substance found in nearly ...